We investigated the effects of a combined exposure to restraint stress and low doses of chemicals pyridostigmine bromide (PB), N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), and permethrin in adult male rats, a model of Gulf-War syndrome. Animals were exposed daily to one of the following for 28 days: (i) a combination of stress and chemicals (PB, 1.3 mg/kg/day; DEET, 40 mg/kg/day; and permethrin, 0.13 mg/kg...

OBJECTIVE To identify the impact of the first world war on the lifespan of participating military personnel (including in veterans who survived the war). DESIGN Comparison of two cohorts of military personnel, followed to death. SETTING Military personnel leaving New Zealand to participate in the first world war. PARTICIPANTS From a dataset of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, we rand...

UNLABELLED Because of the unannounced war state in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992-1995, there were overlapping of war and peaceful doctrine of taking care of all injuries. Many extraperitoneal and intraperitoneal injuries of colon and rectum were treated in the Cantonal Hospital Zenica and in the other war hospitals where the staff of Cantonal Hospital Zenica worked. According to the...

Brain foreign bodies and penetrating missile injuries of the brain are familiar topics for Iranian physicians, especially after Iran and Iraq war. But it’s not easily plausible that there is a couple of sewing needles in the cranium of a patient who has not any history of head trauma or penetrating injury. The patient was a 42-year-old man who admitted in neurology ward of Mottahari Hospital in...

The material consequences of the US-led “war on terror” in Pakistan are always counted statistical terms, that is, number casualties drone strikes or suicide bombings. Little attention, however, is paid to local public imagination know how ordinary people consume this everyday destruction and what kind cultural production it ensures shapes inspires their imagination. In study, therefore, we dis...

BACKGROUND Upper limb amputations are one of the unpleasant war injuries that armed forces are exposed to frequently. The present study aimed to assess the musculoskeletal and peripheral nervous systems in Iraq-Iran war veterans with bilateral upper extremity amputation. METHODS The study consisted of taking a history and clinical examinations including demographic data, presence and location...